January 05, 2020

Science Fiction Sunday 569

Dr Benderfax is a 1997 SF comedy written and directed by Tom Hosler. It's his only movie and he did a lot of the work himself. The Dr is a Mad Scientist with a research clinic that secretly experiments on people. A young man comes to work at the clinic, he falls for the pretty doctor working there, they discover what's really going on in the MS's secret lab. It's all downhill for the Mad Scientist then. It's competently made with actors that aren't too bad. It's made me think, Re-Animator lite, but without the more original story and less laughs. I made it to the end but I wouldn't need to see it again.

Outpost Earth is a 2019 Brett Piper movie. I saw it on Amazon Prime, like the movie above. Brett wrote and directed this post alien invasion movie. It's about a random bunch of survivors. They fight and scrounge to stay alive. They have the advantage of having a scientist with them. He's set up a lab and eventuality they find out how to battle the aliens. It's all pretty pat, the CGI is so-so and the whole thing is below average. A lot of the voters on the IMDb really put the hate on, almost 46% of them gave it a 1. I didn't hate it but I did use the 10 second FF button when they were just wandering around from place to place. I got to the end and wouldn't need to see it again. Too bad, some of Brett's movies are a good bit better than this.